EU 1.64
· European ranking
12 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Portugal: Housing Space per Person
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
1.70 Rooms per person
EU 1.64 · +0.1 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the average number of rooms available in a household relative to the number of people living there, using Eurostat rules on which habitable spaces count as rooms.
Higher values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Average number of rooms per person ilc_lvho04d
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At a glance
Portugal performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Portugal
In Portugal, Rooms per person is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 1.7 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a gap of 0.1 rooms per person.
Recent trend
In Portugal, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.7 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 1.7 in 2024, confirming the stable reading.
Reading within the topic
In Portugal, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.